The Constitution of the #Provinces of #Freedom_Haven
(Draft Version 0.91 4/19/2020. More at: FreedomHaven.org )
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PREAMBLE
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We the individual People, in order to secure the #right to #defend ourselves, {Gto limit the scope of #Government}, and to secure the Blessings of #Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, so that we can have the chance to learn, grow, and work towards achieving our greatest individual divine potentials (so that through our efforts, and without #compulsory_means, prosperity may flow unto us forever and ever), do ordain and establish this Constitution for the #Provinces that form the Country of Freedom Haven.
We recognize that:
* #Freedom is an essential ingredient for individuals to achieve their greatest potential. We hold to the Philosophy of #Liberty as a means to improve upon the #Life that we have.
* The initiation of #Force is immoral and harmful.
* {GAny #Government, or any system of #Force/#Compulsion/#Coercion, will naturally try to grow in scope over time. We oppose such expansion.}
This Constitution is established for the purpose of preserving the highest degree of #Freedom possible for each Individual while preserving the Individual's #right of #self-defense. It is also meant to be {Gchains to limit what #Government can do}.
ARTICLE I: DEFINITIONS
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This Constitution describes specific concepts that existing commonly-understood words may not perfectly fit - for this reason, and to cover the possibility of society's definitions changing over time, the definitions of the most important words are preserved below. While the words below may have additional meanings outside of this Constitution, the definitions below will be used within the context of this Constitution and all of them need to be understood in order to properly understand the intentions of this Constitution. These definitions are written in logical order, not in order of importance.
* [Force;Compulsion;Compulsions;Coercion;Compulsory means;Enforced;Enforce;Forced;#FORCE (or #COMPULSION/#COERCION) is defined as taking/destroying or threatening to take/destroy someone else's #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property. #Force is a crime unless it can be proven that it was needed for #Self-Defense.]
* [Freedom;Freedoms;Liberty;#FREEDOM (or #LIBERTY) is defined as living #Life with the least amount of #Force (or threat of #force) used against you as possible.
- #Freedom is a God-given natural #right, and exists in the absence of any #Government.
- #Government cannot create #Freedom - it can only preserve, protect, restore, or suppress it.
- #Freedom is the ability to use your #Life and #Property according to your will, as long as it does not take away from someone else's #Freedom to do the same with their #Life and #Property. #Freedom is what you are naturally able to do in the absence of someone threatening to #Murder you, #Kidnap you, and/or #Steal and/or destroy your #Property.
- For example: We claim the privilege of worshiping (or not worshiping) how, where, or what God (or Gods) we may as long as the performance of that worship does not infringe upon anyone else’s freedom to do the same and does not threaten life, freedom, and/or property.]
* [Life;Lives;Human;Humans;Human Being;Human Beings;#LIFE means sentient #human #Life. This is any #human (with #human DNA), that has their own unique brain activity, regardless of their skin color, gender, beliefs, disabilities, dependencies, actions/history, intentions, or location. #Human sentience exists when electrical signals are occurring in the brain.
- A #human body that does not have any brain activity for a documented extended period of time (aka: "brain dead" or "vegetative state") is the #Property of their legal guardians.]
* [Property;Properties;Tangible Property;#PROPERTY (or #TANGIBLE_PROPERTY) is anything that you can touch which can be owned.]
- You cannot own another sentient #human_being. You (and only you) own your body while you are alive.
+ Long term actions that are deliberately intended to produce sleep deprivation can cause brain damage (which is #property damage), and if that leads to deliberate death then this is #Murder.
+ Deliberately damaging someone's hearing through loud noise is also #Property damage, but (in certain areas where loud noise is expected) it is expected that people take their own precautions (within reason) to prevent hearing damage.
- The only items #Government recognizes as #Property are #Tangible_Property.
- [Intangible;Intangible Items;Virtual;Control over intangible (or "virtual") items (which you cannot touch), such as information, perceived value, ideas, processes, etc, are not God-given natural #rights. People may choose to keep their intangible items concealed from others or secure them within their #rights of their own #Tangible_Property, but they may not attempt to control #intangible_items through the use of #Force on others. You are not justified in using #Force to control what happens with intangible items once they have left the control of your #Tangible_Property.]
- Tangible #Property shall exist as either #LAND (non-portable #Property) or PORTABLE #PROPERTY.
- [Land;Lands;#LAND #Property Ownership:
+ Multiple public decentralized databases should be kept by the people that record who owns which #lands in Freedom Haven, with clear boundaries defined so that conflicts can be avoided.
+ Where two or more individuals assert a claim to the same #Land, the #right of the claimant able to assert the best claim is to be respected. The criteria by which the best claim is determined shall include: the time at which the claim was first publicly asserted, and the use to which the claimants have put the Land to (the greater the use, the greater the claim).
+ #Lands shall extend above to the height of the space occupied by the tallest owned solid structure, and below to beyond the depth needed to maintain a very stable foundation of all structures on the owned #land.
+ No person, or group of people, may own all of the Residence #Property surrounding someone Else's Residence #Property without allowing them (and their portable possessions) instant reasonable free access to enter or exit their Residence #Property at that person's own will and timing. All people should have freedom of movement to/from the established entrance of any Residence #Property.]
- [Portable Residence;#PORTABLE_RESIDENCE #Property:
+ Any piece of Portable #Property that can house one or more living #humans is considered a #PORTABLE_RESIDENCE #Property.
+ The laws of a #Portable_Residence #Property are the same as the laws of the #Land that they reside on. If they do not reside on an owned piece of #Land, then the laws are the same as the outer-most #Portable_Residence #Property they reside in/on. If they do not reside on an owned piece of #Land, nor on/in another #Portable_Residence #Property, then they can choose their own laws within the limitations of this Constitution.]
- A #Property owner controls the use of their #Property.
- Any #Property that people own (and can give legal #consent regarding) may be voluntarily exchanged between #consenting individuals, but they bear the legal burden of showing proof that such a voluntary transfer took place.
- Violation of mutually voluntarily #consented contracts involving #Property can be seen as #Theft of that #Property and therefor may sometimes justify the use of #Force (by anyone the #Property owner authorizes) to ensure all #Property ends up with its legal owner, according to the contract.
- #Property owners have authority to choose who has physical access to their #property. Individuals may disagree with the reason the #Property owner gives or may think the reason is invalid, but this does not justify violating that person's #Property.
- A Residence #Property owner may evict anyone on their Residence #Property for any reason at any time, unless a voluntarily signed contract removes some or all of this eviction #right, but a realistic amount of time must be allowed to reasonably vacate the premises without suffering loss of life or limb. Contracts are responsible for covering what happens regarding reimbursement, if any, in the event of an eviction.
* [Murder;Murderer;Murdering;#MURDER is ending sentient #human #Life without #consent, unless it is required for #self-defense.
Refusing to help someone prolong their #Life is NOT #Murder.]
* [Kidnapping;Kidnap;Kidnapper;#KIDNAPPING is taking away #Freedom (without #consent, unless it is required for #self-defense), which includes (but is not limited to) the following examples IF no #consent is given:
- restraining (which includes #Rape),
- imprisoning,
- blocking access to the established entrance of any #Property,
- providing addictive recreational drugs or other addictive substances.
Refusing to help someone retain or obtain their #Freedom is NOT #Kidnapping.]
* [Theft;Thief;Thieving;Robbery;Robber;Invasion;Invader;Trespassing;Trespasser;Arson;Arsonist;Vandalism;Vandal;Rape;Rapist;Steal;#THEFT is taking, destroying, using, or damaging #Property without #consent, and is only sometimes justified if needed for #self-defense. This includes the following:
- #robbery
- #invasion/#trespassing
- #arson/#vandalism
- using someone else's #Property without their #consent. This includes #rape, which is physically using someone else's body for sexual intercourse without their #consent.
Refusing to help someone #defend their #Property from #Theft is itself NOT #Theft.]
* [Defensive Force;Defensive-Force;Self-Defense;Defend;Defense;#DEFENSIVE_FORCE (or #Self-Defense): is using #Force only to #defend your #Life from #Murder, your #Property from #theft/#invasion/#trespassing/#arson/#vandalism/#rape/etc., or your #Freedom from #kidnapping/#rape/etc.
- #Force is only #Defensive-force as long as the threat to #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property remains active. Justice, retribution, and/or vengeance are not #Defensive-Force and are not justified uses of #Force.
- An individual's #right to #self-defense shall not be taken away unless that individual can be proven to be initiating Force against others. For example: A shooter shoots an innocent person and people nearby take the shooter's gun away and detain the shooter.
- Courts will assume that each instance of #Force was NOT for #Self-Defense until it can be proven that it was. A person proven to be using #Force, bears the burden of providing sufficient evidence to back a claim that this use was in #Self-Defense.]
* [Government;Governments;#GOVERNMENT is any person, or group of persons, using #Force, regardless of whether the use was justified or not. To the people of Freedom Haven, #Government and #Force are synonymous. Anyone using #Force is #Government, and #Government only exists when #Force (or the threat of #Force) is present.]
* [Extradition;Extradite;#EXTRADITION is capturing an individual and sending them to a foreign #Government to answer for crimes against that foreign #Government that are not also crimes against the laws of Freedom Haven.]
* [Pollution;#POLLUTION is modifying land, sea, and/or air belonging to Freedom Haven in such a way as to reduce its utility, with the exception of any modification of gases that also occurs naturally from animals. Excrement can be released back into the environment only after most of the biological break-down of the waste has completed.]
ARTICLE II: RIGHTS
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There are no #rights but those that exist for all people. No third party can take away an individual's #rights, and no government permission is needed to have and use these #rights. All #rights are based on the truth of self-ownership. The only time #rights may sometimes be taken away are in individual cases if required to stop them from #Murdering, #Kidnapping, and/or #Thieving. Therefore: [Rights;right;#Rights are those things where the individual is sometimes justified in using #Force to #defend: #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property.]
* #LIFE, #FREEDOM and #PROPERTY
- Each individual person has the #right to maintain and control his or her own personal #Life, personal #Freedom, and personal #Property, after the corresponding age of #consent has been reached.
* #DEFENSIVE_FORCE
- #Force is only sometimes justified to #defend someone's #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property.
- {GSince #Governments naturally grow in scope over time, this Constitution is established to block that growth, so that the least amount of #Force (that's required to #defend #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property) is used and the greatest amount of #Freedom is preserved. An imperfect execution of justified #Government action does NOT justify an expansion of #Government authority.}
- All people are permitted to arm themselves with whatever weapons they believe is needed to #defend themselves and others, with the exception of nuclear and biological devices whose primary purpose is to be a weapon (which are forbidden). Private #Property owners are permitted to further restrict weapons within their boundaries for the safety of their #Property, but these restrictions may only be #enforced through the eviction of non-compliant people from their property.
- The manufacturing, dealing, and/or trading of arms/weapons are permitted as long as the arms/weapons are legal in Freedom Haven, and the process does not put anyone else's #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property in serious danger.
- Someone simply having a weapon is, by itself, not enough to constitute a threat against #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property.
- {GSince we oppose the expansion of #Government, only the minimal amount of #force needed should be used in a particular situation so that the situation is not escalated - this requires self-restraint when using #force.} While it is good to be honest with your feelings, we should aspire to be full of love and compassion: it is better to act out of love for that which you are protecting than to act out of hate for the person who threatens what you're protecting.
* WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE #GOVERNMENT
- Neither the #Government of Freedom Haven nor any organization has any #rights except for those #rights which exist for each individual person.
- {GThe #Government may not use #Force, except the minimum needed to stop #Murder, #Kidnapping, or #Theft (as defined in this document).} Any individual has the #right to #defend #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property (as defined in this document), but when such #Force is used, that individual (or group of individuals) {Gis (in that moment) part of the #Government and is subject to the limitations contained within this Constitution}.
- The emphasis of #Government should not be to punish or condemn people for their actions but instead {Gto protect #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property}. People can change and improve, and #Government should not stand in the way of people becoming better than they were. The emphasis should be on providing opportunities to repent to those who seek to fix what they broke, and not on handing out vengeance.
* [Province;Provinces;Province's;States;State;State's;ESTABLISHMENT OF #PROVINCES
The boundaries of a privately owned #Land, or #Portable_Residence #Property that doesn't exist inside the boundaries of another privately owned #Land, or #Portable_Residence #Property, constitutes a #Province. The owner of each #Province may have his/her own specific laws for implementing this Constitution within their boundaries, within the following conditions:]
- Laws of that #Province may not legalize anything forbidden by this Constitution, nor can such laws remove any #human #rights spelled out in this Constitution. Any such unconstitutional laws may not be #enforced, but a #property owner may evict people from their #property as spelled out in this constitution.
- Every person is to have reasonable access to the laws of each individual #Province. Any changes to the laws of each individual #Province must be clearly and promptly communicated to all people who are interested with sufficient reasonable warning for those people who don't wish to comply to evacuate the #Province before the law changes go into effect. Brevity of laws is encouraged.
- The boundaries/borders of a #Province need to be properly marked if the #right to prevent #Trespassing is going to be upheld. Otherwise people may unknowingly enter another #Province through no fault of their own.
- #Provinces may use the laws of another #Province. Having multiple #Provinces using the same laws makes it easier for trade and goods to cross boundaries.
- If one person's #Portable_Residence #Property is moved inside another person's #Land or #Portable_Residence #Property, the laws of the outer-most #Property takes precedence. If a #Land #Property isn't part of the equation, then the outer-most #Land or #Portable_Residence will take precedence. A person should not bring their #Portable_Residence #Property into another person's #Land or #Portable_Residence #Property unless they #consent to abide by the associated laws.
- If individuals cause any damage to another individual's #Property, owners may also establish reasonable ways for people on their #Land (or #Portable_Residence) #Property to fully repay or repair the portion of any damages they cause that they are found responsible for. The same may also be explored for loss of #Freedom or loss of #Life. A person will be held responsible for fixing the damage they are found responsible for regardless of whether the damage was caused intentionally or by accident, with the exception of situations involving deceit (where the person’s life/freedom/property was damaged as a direct result of that person deliberately deceiving others into thinking there was a threat that required self-defense).
Both of the following are true, but since they conflict with each other in each situation it would need to be determined, as needed, how much of either is at fault and bears responsibility for any damage that was caused:
+ 1) Each individual is responsible making reasonable efforts to keep their #Life/#Freedom/#Property safe from accidents that can cause damage (thus keeping them out of harms way)
and
+ 2) Other people are responsible for not threatening that person's #Life/#Freedom/#Property.
- #Government, or voluntary non-Government, mediation may be used to resolve issues between #Provinces of Freedom Haven, but this needs to be done in an orderly, publicly-understood and publicly-visible process. This may include (but not be limited to) the following:
+ Rescuing (and retrieving) someone held against their will in another #province
+ Stopping someone who can be proven to be currently threatening the #life, #freedom and/or #property of someone in another #province
* [Consent;consenting;consented;#CONSENT
#Consent must be recorded in a way that it can be proven in court that #consent was indeed given. If individuals are accused of using #Force, they shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty, but #consent is assumed not to have been given unless it can be proven. If individuals are shown to have used #Force, they must prove their #self-defense justification, or #consent given, or else be in violation of the required limitations on #Force.
#Consent cannot be given to certain subject areas until after a certain age:
- #LIFE: At age 21 you can give #consent regarding your #Life (e.g. agree to assisted suicide, etc). You can #defend your #Life at any age.
- #FREEDOM: At age 18 you can give #consent to give up your #Freedom/#Liberty (e.g. using addictive substances, trading yourself into slavery in exchange for products or services (e.g. indentured servitude or debt), etc), on condition that an end-date is specified in the contract. (Overcoming any addictions acquired, which were properly communicated ahead of time, will be the individual's responsibility.)
- #PROPERTY: At age 8 you can give #consent regarding your #Property (minus your own body). Your legal guardian can provide the missing #consent until that age. You can provide #consent regarding your body at age 18.
- Power of Attorney:
+ After the corresponding age of #consent is reached, a person can voluntarily choose to give authority (for a specified limited time) to another person to provide #Consent on their behalf. Sufficient witnesses of this bestowal of authority are required so that this can be upheld in court. The consent owner can revoke power of attorney anytime they want as long as they provide sufficient warning to the holder of the power of attorney so that they know.
+ #Consent can only be provided by the individual or someone with "power of attorney".
+ Legal guardians have automatic power of attorney over their children/dependants until they reach the corresponding age of accountability, with the exception of the child's life, which the child themselves can only choose to destroy when they reach their corresponding age of accountability.
- In all things, #consent is required to be documented in a way that would hold up as evidence in court if needed.
- #Consent CANNOT be determined by any vote.]
* NO TAXATION. NO RIGHTS TO #GOVERNMENT SERVICES.
- Taxation is #Theft and is forbidden - the #Government may NOT #steal to fund its efforts.
- No #Government services are a #right. If individuals want a service, but do not want to pay for it, they will have to find someone who is willing to offer that service for free. If no one volunteers to perform the service for free, then the service does not have to be offered. Individual people bear the ultimate responsibility to #defend their own #Lives, #Freedoms, and #Properties. Individuals may grant authority to others to provide security for them.
- Each individual has the responsibility to be vigilant in order to protect his or her #Freedoms, #Property, and #Life. {GEach individual is encouraged to document each instance of tyranny, so that #Force is not used beyond #self-defense.}
- Only the #Property owner may impose fees for physical access to, or use of, their #Property. No external #Government, group, or individual, may impose any such fees or tariffs.
* PRIVACY
- #Government shall not have any #rights to privacy. #Government must provide timely public visibility into all actions it performs.
- Individuals not using force may choose to implement privacy, but not at the cost of another individual's #rights to his or her own #Life, #Freedom, or #Property. Privacy is best achieved by having control over your own tangible #Property.
* INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TRUMP ANY VOTE OF THE MAJORITY
- The vote of the majority shall never take away the #rights of the individual, as listed here.
* [No Extradition;NO #EXTRADITION
There will be no #Extradition from Freedom Haven.]
- If a #Government of foreign nation seeks to arrest any individual who broke their laws, they can only do so in their own country - they should not come to Freedom Haven seeking to arrest that individual while they are in Freedom Haven, neither should they expect Freedom Haven to #Extradite said individual, unless the individual can be proven to have committed crimes worthy of banishment from Freedom Haven according to the laws of the corresponding #Province of Freedom Haven.
- Representatives of those foreign nations are welcome to visit the #Provinces of Freedom Haven, with the #consent of the #Province #Property owner, as long as they abide by the laws of that #Province and do not threaten another individual's #Life, #Freedom, and/or #Property. No individual in Freedom Haven, including the representatives of other nations, is given any special #rights that are not also available to all other individuals. Representatives of other nations will be required to abide by laws in accordance with this Constitution of Freedom Haven, just like everyone else.
- Foreign nations may choose to prosecute members of Freedom Haven for laws that that individual has broken in the Freedom Haven #Province they reside, in accordance with those #Province laws. Courts should be wary of evidence provided by foreign country's since those countries may have an incentive to frame the innocent with falsified evidence, so that they can circumvent the "no #extradition" restriction.
* LIMITATIONS
In addition to any other limitations listed here:
- {GAny use of #Force or #Government action not justified in this Constitution violates individual #rights and is forbidden.}
- Any laws/regulations/executive-orders/etc passed in Freedom Haven that are in conflict with this Constitution are considered null and void and shall not be recognized by Freedom Haven's courts, security forces (police, army, etc), or residents.
ARTICLE III: BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
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Freedom Haven claims all of the various "internal waters", "territorial waters", "exclusive economic zone", and other areas that exist for sovereign nations.
Any person and their #Property is welcome inside these national boundaries conditional on their adherence to this Constitution and the laws of any #Province they visit.
* All people are considered visitors of Freedom Haven until they obtain their citizenship.
* To become a citizen, a person must have completed all of the following:
- have been present at Freedom Haven more than 50% of the time over the previous year or be the owner of a #Province for at least a month,
- be in full compliance with this Constitution and/or made full reparations/repairs for all damages caused,
- sign an affidavit of governance that:
+ requests their mother/father country stay out of Freedom Haven affairs, and
+ asserts Freedom Haven as an independently governed nation
- Citizens of Freedom Haven are free to also keep their previous citizenships from their home country.
- Freedom Haven Citizenship can be revoked if a person is banished from Freedom Haven for failing to comply with this Constitution.
Any private #Land or #Portable_Residence #Property may also become an extension of Freedom Haven, as a new #Province member of the country of Freedom Haven, upon their covenanting to uphold this Constitution and the Freedom of the people. Any #Property owned by anyone not willing to follow this Constitution is not welcome within any of the above mentioned boundaries of Freedom Haven.
In addition to whatever is granted as a country's #right according to global norms, the country of Freedom Haven claims ownership to all water, land, and air, within its Contiguous zone (24 nautical miles out), until anyone (who is willing to abide by this Constitution) lays physical claim to that water, land, or air by enclosing it – at which point it will become #property of that person and the #Province they represent. Enclosing a previously claimed property does NOT transfer its ownership, and (as previously explained) the outer property cannot block access to/from the inner property. Any damages, such as #pollution (as defined above), to the water/land/air before it is claimed (as stated above) are not allowed, and any claimed water/land/air that is damaged in this manner may not be returned to the area owned by the country of Freedom Haven until the damage has first been repaired.
[Freedom Haven;Freedom Haven is:
* The territorial #lands, and/or seabed-based structures, claimed under the Freedom Haven flag,
* The territorial water and Contiguous zone around this territorial #land/structure, plus all water, #land, and air normally acknowledged to corresponding host countries of the world,
* All ships on the sea that fly the Freedom Haven flag and uphold the Constitution of Freedom Haven, and
* Any lands where the country wishes to be part of Freedom Haven.
]
ARTICLE IV: CHANGES TO THIS CONSTITUTION
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We know that despite our best efforts, there will be imperfections in this Constitution, so there needs to be a way to modify this Constitution in the future. Other than the exceptions listed below, this Constitution shall be locked and unchanged starting from the day that Freedom Haven has populated the new land and declared itself a new country to the world:
* On the day when the first New Liberty 5-year lease has completed, this Constitution will be replaced by a new modified version presented by a committee that Anthony Charles Olsen will establish for this purpose, on condition that no more than 10% of the Constitution (according to word count) will be modified.
or
* The Constitution may be modified in any way as long as 100% of the land and portable-residence property owners in Freedom Haven agree with the changes.